Fatal shooting at Farmington Hills party store has police searching for suspect in numbers

A Farmington Hills party store employee is dead tied to a shooting during an attempted armed robbery Saturday that led to a police search for a suspect who is still at large.

A witness alerted authorities around 12:30 p.m. that a robbery had just occurred at Tom’s Party Store, which is located on Inkster Road near Eight Mile Road. The witness told the officers when he entered the convenience store, he found a someone shot to death.

Oakland County Medical Examiner’s Office investigators said a caller reported the dead man was the party store owner, but police could not confirm the man’s identity.

Michigan State Police were sent to the area, said Lt. Michael Shaw, with “officers on the ground, an aviation unit and a K-9 unit” to search for the suspect. A portion of the 20000 block of Inkster had been blocked off by officers while the search continued.

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Shaw said that the party store shooting in Farmington Hills was not related to the escape of a prisoner in Detroit earlier Saturday morning.

As of 5 p.m., no suspects were in custody, said Farmington Hills dispatch officials.

The suspect is described as a man who is 6 feet tall and weighs around 180 pounds. He was wearing a dark green jacket and a winter hat, witnesses told police.

Anyone with information about the fatal shooting is asked to call Farmington Hills police at 248-871-2610.

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